About Us
Secret Lab provides custom Cocoa development services, web design and development, and more! If you'd like us to make something excellent for you, don't hesitate to get in touch for an obligation-free quote!
We specialise in business solutions for the Mac OS desktop, as well as iPhone apps, web apps, and interface design consulting. What amazing software can we make for you?
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Mad Scientists
Lab Assistants
Jon Manning
Jon creates beautiful software, is overly fascinated by cats, listens to chiptunes non-ironically, and quietly obsesses.
Jon has been freelancing since high school, and has come to love the warm, tender embrace of Objective-C. His particular interests are computer graphics, game development, artificial intelligence, and making fantastic software. Jon completed his Bachelor of Computing degree in July, and is now undertaking an honours component.
Andrew Bennett
Andrew thinks he’s fooled us into believing he’s insane, but has become insane in the process.
An archetypical reclusive hacker, Andrew spends most of his time creating weird software toys that perplex everyone with their intricacy and stupefyingly precise target audience (ie, himself). Andrew is a phenomenally skilled C, C++ and Flash programmer, as well as our lead artistic talent.
Paris Buttfield-Addison
Paris is very loud, very large and he knows how to make computers go.
Having graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2007, Paris was immediately placed on the dean’s honour roll, and currently holds multiple Apple-funded scholarships. Having developed software for the Mac for years as a freelancer, Paris is an expert developer, and is particularly fond of Ruby. But not Rails, because it’s icky.
Zen Miles
Zen is the computer man.
In addition to his day job at the University of Tasmania fixing computers that get broken by academics, Zen helps out the lab with his gameplay design skill, and spends way too long thinking about fuzzy things like game balance and "fun".
Josh Deprez
Josh makes nice tunes, and is way too interested in WALL•E.
Josh graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science, and spends his time working for his corporate overlords at the Federal Group, or writing music for our games.
Personally, we like it better when he's writing music.